Manifolding machine



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MANIFOLDING MACHINE Filed April 5, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Q f IV; I F

J INVENTOR ORNEY C W. BRENN May 23, 1939.

1 MANIFOLDING MACHINE Filed April 5, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 lllllllllllllllll Al May 23, 1939. c. w BRENN MANIFOLDING MACHINE Filed April 5, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Ca lWBrenn, BY Q I ORNEY Patented May 23, 1939 PATENT OFFICE MANIFOLDING MACHINE Carl W. Brenn, Montclair, N. J'., assignor to Autographic Register Company, Hoboken, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application April 5, 1934, Serial No. 719,133

7 Claims.

This invention relates to manifolding machine, and more particularly, to those machines adapted to-hold and store record slips written upon in the machine and severed from the continuous supplies.

An object of this invention is to provide an improved machine for storing record slips in a compartment, formed in the machine, after they have been written" upon and issued from the slips may beremoved from the storage compartment as a block and may be retained in that condition for future use and reference.

Accordingly, one of the salient features of this invention is the provision ofmeans detachably holding a post-binder in the record compartment of the manifolder machine as well as the pro-.

vision of means for depressing the record slips on the posts and'compressing these slips on the pile incidental to the operation of placing the slips in the storage compartment. v

- Another object of this invention is to provide a loose-leaf binder having posts or pins to receive apertures in the slips, and a front and back cover, which binder may be detachably secured in the record compartment of the machine.

Accordingly, another salientfeature of this invention is the provision of a loose-leaf binder having a pair of posts rising from a plate. The posts are preferably made of sheet metal and the plate is preferably permanently attached to the cover of the book. The posts preferably have barbs to catch into the margins of the apertures through which the posts extend and retain ,the

slips on the binder against accidentally falling therefrom when the record compartment is opened and the clamping means on the machine disengages the pile of slips during the time when a new slip is being inserted in the record com-' partment.

In its broader aspects, the present invention relates to a. standard full-size manifolding machine for counter or desk use. However, many of the features herein disclosed are particularly advantageous when used in portable machines,

improved means for locating and holding carbon sheets between the interleaved record sheets on the platen of the machine. This means, in its preferred form, comprises a thin sheet-metal plate clamped on the rear edge of the carbon sheet and having a pair of apertures adapted to be slipped over hooks carried by the platen frame or another appropriate part of the machine. The hooks are directed rearwardly so that the drag applied to the carbon holding bar by the record strips passing through the machine will tend to retain the carbon bar on the hooks.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a manifolding machine made in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the cover forthe record-storing compartment, with its related parts. 1

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of the forward part of the record compartment, show ing the record slips supported on the loose-leaf binder.

Fig. 4 is a medial longitudinal section showing the details of the register shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a similar view, taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the binder of the present invention in its filled condition, ready for auditing or storage.

Fig. 8 is a similar view, but showing the binder in the condition inwhich it is taken from the register, the front cover being shown in dot-anddash lines as being folded out from under the book.

' Fig. 9 is a perspective view of. the filing-pin plate used in the binder shown in Figs. 7 and 8.

Fig. 10 is a bottom plan view of the book shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 11 is a sectional view of the forward end of the record compartment showing a stationary pin for impaling and aligning the record slips. Fig. 12 is a plan view of the carbon sheet mounting means.

The present invention is herein illustrated as applied to the portable or hand-held type of manifolding machine, but it should be distinctly 50 understood that the improvements may be applied to full-size or any other size or type of'machine. Y 4 T I The machine illustrated is made of a sheet metal blank and stamp having a bottom I, sides II, a front wall I 2 and a rear wall l3 formed of one piece. At the front and top corners of the sides II, there are provided pivots 14 on which .is mounted a platen frame l5 having side flanges I 6 and a platen or writing bed l1. When the platen frame is in normal or horizontal position, the platen engages the upper edges of the side walls ll while the flanges l6 engage the outside surfaces of the walls II and prevent the latter from bulging outwardly.

Also pivoted on the pins I4 is a marginal frame l8 having a writing opening l9 revealing the portion of the strip which is to be written upon when the marginal frame is supported horizontally on the platen.

The marginal frame l8 and platen frame I5 are pivotally mounted so as to spring upwardly to give access to the supply compartment 20 having a floor 2| on which may be supported a block or book 22 of zigzag folded continuous record strips, some or all of which may be printed. When the block 22 is placed in the supply compartment 20' as shown in Fig. 4, the leading ends of the strips 22a, 22b, and 220 are threaded over a roller 23 carried by the platen frame so that they can extend forwardly over the platen ll, at which point they are interleaved with the transfer material.

In the form of the invention shown in Flgs. l and 6, the transfer material, in the form of a roll or spool 24, lies in a box 25 secured to one side of the platen frame l5 and the strips on this spool may be extended transversely over the platen between the writing strips 22a, 22b, and 220. t

The front ends of the carbon strips are clamped in position by the marginal frame I3 as shown in Fig. 6 when the latter is swung down to an operative position on the platen, while the other side of the marginal frame has an extension 18a covering the carbon box.

In the form of the invention shownin Fig. 4, the transversely extending carbon strips from a roll or spool are dispensed with, and, instead, carbon sheets 26 are employed. Each carbon sheet 26 is provided with an inexpensive sheet metal bar 21 folded upon itself to clamp the rear margin of the carbon paper to it, and it has ears 28 provided with elongated apertures 28', the latter being designed to be slipped over hooks 29 rising from the platen frame I5 and located at the introductory side of the platen. These bars 2'! guide the record strips over and under the rear edge of the carbon paper and protect-the latter against being torn by protuberances on the strips. In use, when the strips advance forwardly over the platen, the tendency is to drag the longitudinally extending carbon paper with them, and this holds the rear margin of the apertures 28 on the hooks. Moreover, the marginal frame also serves to keep the carbon arms 21 on the hooks, and for this purpose indentations 30 are provided on the marginal frame into which the hooks 29 extend.

In order to apply tension on the portions of the strips supported by the platen, the platen frame is provided with a rod 3| carrying one or more spring fingers 32 bowed upwardly, and their ends engage the uppermost strip 220 directly over the carbon bars 21.

When the marginal frame I8 is placed in operative position, it engages the bowed portions of the springs 32 and applies pressure to the uppermost strip, and through the latter and the carbon arms 21 to the lower strips 220. and 22b.

After being interleaved with carbon sheets 26 or strips from the carbon roll 25, the record strips are placed under lateral-guides 33 at the forward end of the machine.

In the form of the invention herein disclosed, the withdrawal of the paper strips from the machine is started and regulated by means of pins 34 located at the front part of the platen ll. These pins 34 extend up through the platen and are in position to engage apertures 35 in the record strips as the strips advance. The-pins 34 may be caused to move forwardly, then descend out of the apertures 35 in the paper, and then moved rearwardly under the paper to position to intercept the next set of forms, when a lever 36 is operated. The mechanism for doing this may be any suitable or known form. When the lever 36 is depressed to advance the strips 22a, 22b and 220, the leading edges of the strips are carried beyond a forward edge 3'! of the marginal frame l8 so that they may be grasped and pulled forwardly until the next set of slips is in position to be written upon, at which time the pins rise through the apertures 35 of that set of slips and arrest further withdrawal. The written slips may then be torn off along transverse lines of perforations 38 between forms, and in this operation the forward edge 31 of the marginal frame may act as a knife to aid in rupturing the fiber between perforations.

When used as a portable machine, the ticket or slip may be filled in with memoranda of various transactions at the time the transaction takes place. The machinemay be brought to the purchaser so that the slip can be signed as a receipt for the goods delivered. When this is done and the set of written tickets is delivered from the machine and severed, one or two copies are delivered to the customer while the third copy, acting as a receipt, is retained by the salesman and stored in the machine.

For this performance, the floor 2| of the machine is raised from the bottom Ill so as to produce a record storing compartment 39; and, to give access to it, this compartment is preferably extended forwardly beyond the front wall 40, and the projecting portion is provided with a cover or top 4| hinged at 42 and provided with a spring 43 which normally tends to close it. The door 4| is provided at one or both sides with a tab 44 acting as a finger-piece by means of which it might be raised.

The tickets printed on the record strips are usually numbered consecutively. If it is not desired to keep the retained tickets or receipts in numerical order in the record compartment 39, at the end of each transaction the user merely raises the door 4i and slides the ticket in the record compartment.

, Usually, however, it is desired to maintain the numerical order of the receipts or retained tickets so that, in auditing thetransa'ctions, the rearrangement of the tickets in numerical order will not be necessary and the absence of a ticket can be quickly and easily detected. Moreover, the tickets are usually bound together and filed away after the. auditing operations have been performed.

To facilitate this maintaining of the receipts in numerical order and to facilitate the auditing cover 41 has secured to it a thin metal plate 49 by means of teeth 58, and each end of the plate has a pin or post 5| rising perpendicularly from the plate 49 when in use. The plate 49 is on'the exterior of the'back cover 41 and the posts 5| extend upwardly through apertures 52 in the back cover to receive the apertures 35 of the tickets successively placed in positionto be re- 'ceived on the pins or posts 5|.

The backbone 45 and front cover 46 may be omitted entirely if desired, but when supplied, the junction of these with one another and with the back cover 46 is scored or weakened so that they may be folded backwardly over the back cover 41. So that, when folded back, the lower edge of the front cover 46 will not extend beyond the lower edge of the back cover, the former is made shorter than the latter by an amount equal to the width of the back 45. e I

The binder provided by the present invention is intended to be placed in a supply compartment after the front cover is folded back by raising the door 4| and slipping the lower end of the covers downwardly and backwardly into the supply compartment, and its position, as well as the posi tion of the receipts, or retained tickets, subse-- quently placed in the record compartment, is located by an adjustable wall 52 having a horizontal portion 53 provided with a screw 54 ex-' tending downwardly through a slot 55 in the bottom Hi. The screw 54 is provided with a nut 51 which, upon being loosened, serves as a handle to move the wall forwardly or rearwardly and,

upon being tightened, serves to clamp the wall in the desired position. The wall 52 is so adjusted that the rear edges of the folded-over front and back covers engage it while the forward edges engage the front wall I2 of the record storage compartment.

To securely hold the binder against the bottom wall l0 and to assure that the pins or posts 5| extend vertically and are held substantially immovably, the back plate 49 of the binder has a slight depression 58 aboutmidway between its sides. When the binder is in position in the record storage compartment, the depression 58 is in position to slidably receive a finger 59 carried by a slide 60 having a screw 6| passing through a slot 62 in the bottom plate l8. 6 The screw 6| has a nut 63 which, when loosened, serves as a handle to move the finger forwardly into the depression 58 in the metal plate 49 of the binder. When t e screw is tightened, it will draw the metal'plate 9 of the binder firmly against the bottom plate It and hold it in fixed and relatively movable position. The slots and 62 may be coextensive with each other, as herein shown.

Since folding over the front cover 46 would cover and make inaccessible the plate 49 of the metal binder and its depression 48, the cover 46 is provided with an aperture 64 located in such a position as to expose the depression 58 when the cover is folded over.

To press the tickets inserted in the record storage compartment down upon the binder or the pile carried thereby, the cover 4| is provided with a pair of spring fingers 65. These fingers may be formed of one piece of resilient material fastened at 66 to the cover and being bowed to bring its ends down in position to engage the tickets when the cover is in its normal position and the ends may be provided with cutouts 61 to clear the pins or posts 5| of the binder as the spring fingers move to operative position. By having the spring fingers mounted on a cover,

they are moved out of the way when the cover is opened, and do not in any way interfere with the insertion of a ticket or receipt in the record storing compartment.

When the door is returned'to its position, if the just-inserted ticket has not already fallen down on the pile over the pins 5|, the spring fin- "gers will engage it and force it down and will hold the tickets against falling off the pins in case the machine should be inverted, as it is very likely to be when it is light and portable.

In order to insure that the receipts remain on the pins 5|, the latter may preferably be provided with barbs or other irregularities 5|a tending to catch into the margins of the apertures 35 should the ticket tend to riselwith relation to the binder and its pins 5| while the cover 4| and its spring fingers 65 are in open or inoperative position.

After the strips coming from the book or block 22 have been fed through the machine and the receipts or tickets have all been placed in the record compartment, the nut 63 is loosened and the finger 59 is retracted from the depression 48 to release the binder from the bottom wall I!) of the machine. The door 4| is then opened, and

by means of the pins or by means of a cutout end of the binder is raised into position to be grasped. It is then pulled out from the record storing compartment upwardly and forwardly. After this, the front cover 46 and back 45 are folded back into position over the pile. The pins 5| entering apertures 69 in the front cover, and then the ends of .the pins are bent down upon the top cover as shown in Fig. '7, to securely clamp the cover in locking position. The cover may and preferably does have a scored line 10 directly below the apertures 69 and the pins, so that it may be folded back to conveniently expose the tickets for auditing purposes.

Variations and modifications may be made within the scope of this invention and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and for which it is desired to obtain Letters Patent, is:

1. In a manifolding machine, a frame divided horizontally to form a supply compartment for continuous record strips and a storage compartment for record slips severed from one of said strips, one end of said storage compartment projecting beyond the upper portion of the frame and having an entrance opening in its projecting portion for receiving record slips; a loose-leaf binder supported in said record compartment and including a filing pin deviceto receive apertures in the record slips and hold the latter in regisjecting beyond the upper portion of the frame and having an entrance opening in its projecting portion for receiving record slips; 9. loose-leaf binder supported in said record compartment and including filing pins to receive apertures in the record slips and hold the latter in registration on the binder when placed one after another in said record compartment; and means in the record compartment for detachably locking said binder in said compartment, said last-named means including means for rigidly securing the filing pins in operative position to receive therecord slips.

3. In a manifolding machine, a frame divided horizontally to form a supply compartment for continuous record strips and a storage compartment for record slips severed from one of said strips, one end of said storage compartment projecting'beyond the upper portion of the frame' and having an entrance opening in its projecting portion for receiving record slips; a loose-leaf binder supported in said record compartment and including filing pins to receive apertures in the record slips and hold the latter in registration on the binder when placed one after another in said record compartment; and a transverse wall ad- ,justably mounted in said record compartment to determine the position of the binder therein.

4. In a manifolding machine, a frame divided horizontally to form a supply compartment for continuous record strips and a storage compartment for record slips severed from one of said strips, one end of said storage compartment projecting beyond the upper portion of the frame and having an entrance opening in its projecting portion for receiving record slips; a loose-leaf binder supported in said record compartment and ment for record slips severed from one of said strips, one end of said storage compartment projecting beyond the upper portion 01' the frame and cluding filing pins to receive apertures in the record slips and hold the latter in registration on the binder when placed one after another in said record compartment; a cover for closing said entrance opening; and means on the cover for yieldingly urging the record slips down on the pins each time the cover is opened and closed.

6. In a manifolding machine, a frame divided horizontally to form a supply compartment for continuous record strips and a storage compartment for record slips severed from one of said strips, one end of said storage compartment projecting beyond the upper portion of the frame and having an entrance opening in its projecting portion for receiving record slips; a loose-leaf binder supported in said record compartment and including filing pins to receive apertures in the record slips and hold the latter in registration on the binder when placed one after another in saidrecord compartment; a cover for closing said entrance opening; and spring fingers carried by said cover yieldingly urging the record slips downwardly on the filing pins.

7. In a manifoldin'g machine, a frame divided horizontally to form a supply compartment for continuous record strips and a storage compartment for record slips severed from one of said strips, one end of said storage compartment projecting beyond the upper portion of the frame and having an entrance opening in its projecting portion for receiving record slips; a loose-leaf binder supported in said record compartment and including filing pins to receive aperturesin the record slips andhold the latter in registration on the binder when placed one after another in said record compartment; a cover for closing said entrance opening; means on the cover for yieldingly urging the record slips down on the pins each time the cover is closed; and means for yieldingly maintaining the cover closed.

CARL W. BRENN. 

